Oh... Oh Mickey, no...
- The Tiny Tim Scene from the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come. The ghost (who reveals himself to be Pete) takes Scrooge to a Bad Future where Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit's youngest and most feeble son, has died. The scene where Mickey (as Bob) places Tim's crutch by his tombstone with tears in his eyes is beyond heart-wrenching. It's a difficult scene already, but damn it, Mickey should not look like that. A tearful Mickey is hard enough to watch, but seeing him broken like this is almost unbearable. Without even a shred of humor, levity, optimism, or even exaggeration, it may very well be the single saddest scene Mickey has ever taken part in.
- Another factor to the above scene is Mickey/Bob doesn't have a single line of dialogue. Mickey's voice, even in sad moments, has a naturally happy, if not somewhat hopeful or optimistic, sound to it. Hearing him talk, even sadly, would give the audience some sense that he could pull through such a sad moment of his life. But by keeping him silent, it's like every ounce of hope is gone.
- Yet another reason — this is one of the few, if not the only, incarnations where Mickey and Minnie have kids. Stomach that for a moment.
- Anyone ever notice the way Mickey cries looks somewhat similar to Happy weeping in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
- The scene in question is so wrenching that even a cold-hearted miser finds it hard to watch.
- In the original scene, as well as foreign-language versions, Mickey is silent, but lets out a small sniffle. In the original 1983 Norwegian dub, Mickey is audibly sobbing. Even though it doesn't sync up with the video, it's absolutely heartbreaking to listen to.
Scrooge: Spirit... I didn't want this to happen. Tell me these events can yet be changed... - The scene where Scrooge coldly rebuffs Isabelle, who in the years she has awaited his vow to marry her has become the greedy, thoughtless miser we know him as. Having bought for themselves a honeymoon cottage, she asks if he has made his decision. His answer: He forecloses on her mortgage for being an hour late on her last payment. Devastated, Isabelle leaves the counting-house in tears before angrily slamming the door on Scrooge, walking out of his life forever. To make matters worse, it was not until the Ghost of Christmas Past showed him this that Scrooge, having been madly in love with her in his youth, realized what he had thrown away. He wakes back up in his bedroom, agonizing over his foolishness.Ghost of Christmas Past: You loved your gold more than that precious creature, and you lost her forever!Scrooge: (about to cry) Please, Spirit! I can no longer bear these memories! Take me home!Ghost of Christmas Past: Remember, Scrooge — you fashioned these memories yourself. (echoing)
- Made even worse when you realize Isabelle continued to hold out hope for him even when we see that greed has already taken Scrooge long ago; the hearts that shatter around her when he cuts her off really seal it along with her weeping.
- Following the mourning of Tiny Tim in the graveyard, there are two weasels filling up another grave while laughing upon the fact that the dead person (in which they're burying) had no mourners or friends to bid him farewell. Scrooge eventually learned that the dead person buried beneath that grave.... is actually himself as the gravestone is carved with his name.
- The Disney storybook version features Scrooge's reaction to his own fate, which beautifully shows the real lesson about the future ghost. Scrooge shouts "No! I didn't want my life to end this way!" The "this way" part is a small but effective method of showing the true reason why Scrooge was afraid of this future. He wasn't afraid of dying, it was the way he dies that scares him; as a bitter, greedy, hateful old man who nobody loved and nobody mourned.
